Last year I wrote an article explaining why I use five different apps to take notes. One of the apps I talked about was Ulysses for writing my draft blog posts. I have found that writing on my iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard is a great way for me to focus, and Ulysses is […]
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espanso – Text Expansion for Nerds
espanso Home Page One of the darlings of the Mac community is TextExpander from Smile. I think it’s #2 on my priority list of apps to install, right after 1Password. If you haven’t used TextExpander, the basic idea is that it allows you to type short abbreviations that trigger longer snippets of text to be […]
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CCATP #634 — Mikah Sargent on Favorite TextExpander Snippets
This week our guest is Mikah Sargent of the Clockwise Podcast and the TWiT network. Mikah was talking on some show about how much he loves TextExpander, and I thought it might be fun to have a session where we talked about our favorite TextExpander snippets. We found we use the same TextExpander trigger character […]
Continue readingMenu Bar Favorites by Frank Petrie
The reason I was drawn to the Mac in the first place was as plain and simple as myself – it was the GUI. I didn’t have to know anything about computers, I could completely focus on creating musical compositions, videos, or my writing. I even taught myself some HTML5 and CSS then carved my […]
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TextExpander Tutorial on ScreenCastsOnline
Every time I produce a video tutorial for ScreenCastsOnline, I tell you that it’s amazing. But this time I really mean it! My latest tutorial is on TextExpander, the amazing text-expansion tool for the Mac from TextExpander.com. Their latest subscription-based version 6 of the software has many very advanced features from the old standalone version […]
Continue readingCCATP #588 – Jeff Gamet on TextExpander Evangelism
Jeff Gamet of Smile joins us to talk about the life of an Evangelist for TextExpander. We talk about some of the cool things you can do with TextExpander that you may not know about, how TextExpander works on Windows now, how awesome Jean MacDonald was when she was in this job and even funny […]
Continue readingMacstock Expo 2018 – Stuff I Learned
As much as I learned from talking to people at the parties at Macstock Expo, there was also a conference during the day. The schedule was interesting. Mike Potter, the amazing creator of Macstock Expo, decided to reduce the total number of speakers and instead have each speaker do a 20-minute pitch on the big […]
Continue readingWhy Smile is a Great Company
Last week the company Smile announced big changes to their software TextExpander that were not well received by their customer base. Smile co-founder, Greg Scown, was my guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond to talk about it. Before he came on the show, I decided to send him my outline of what I would […]
Continue readingCCATP #433 I Push Hard on Greg Scown from Smile About TextExpander 6
There’s been a lot of consternation on the Internet this week about the announcements by Smile with their new TextExpander 6 product at textexpander.com. I invited Smile founder Greg Scown onto the show to explain their thinking and to allow me to ask him some tough questions. It was hard for me to do because […]
Continue readingCCATP #419 Bart Busschots Pretty Markdown & HTML Links with TextExpander & Perl
Bart likes to give credit to the sites he references in his shownotes but the links get fairly clutterly. He wrote a very short (17 line) perl script and put it inside TextExpander to make pretty links instead. He wrote this for Markdown but since I like html better he created a version for html […]
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